This year, instead of spending a lot of money buying Christmas presents for family, we talked through it ahead of time and agreed to cut back. We don't need a bunch of "stuff" now that we're older, and we wanted Christmas to be about being together and enjoying one another's company instead of all the presents. We set a price limit, and either made gifts or found them for cheap. We did this with both sides of our family and it worked out GREAT! It was fun to make gifts instead of spending a bunch of time at the mall, and receiving gifts was really meaningful because of the time and energy put into them. Here are a few items I made this year:
Sundae Sauce with Toppings
Homemade Cards and Tags
Mulling Spices for cider and tea
An magnetic activity advent calendar mounted on decorative tin
Festive clothespins for holding Christmas cards
Homemade pillows (Thanks for all the help, mom!)
If you have two sides of the family to buy for, or even have a big family with mostly adults, we highly recommend doing Christmas this way. On my side, we still bought presents for our nephews, but cut way back on purchases for the adults. It turned out to be a very cheap, yet very meaningful, holiday!
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